E. coli: Only Bacteria that wins record number of Nobel Prizes

Tankeshwar Acharya

5 years ago

The Nobel Prize is science’s highest honor. Each year there are only a few Nobel prizes awarded. These go to scientists whose discoveries “have conferredthe greatest benefit on mankind.
” Below is a list of the Nobel-worthy discoveries to which E. coli has contributed and the year that they received the prize.

2015: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”. Escherichia coli was extensively used in this research.